Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb’s Cabinet was sworn in on Saturday evening before interim President Adly Mansour, state-owned Al-Ahram reported.

The new cabinet comes after former Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi resigned along with most of his Cabinet last week amid speculations that the next cabinet shuffle will only be a limited one.

The resignation of Beblawi and his Cabinet was associated with increasing economic strikes.

The new Cabinet includes 11 newcomers, most of whom face some pressing issues inherited from their predecessors.

Adel al-Adawy has been appointed minister of health, amid the rising tension surrounding the doctors’ strike. His predecessor, Maha al-Rabat, has been in an ongoing feud with the Doctors Syndicate. The syndicate has been staging strikes since the start of the year and has accused the ministry of negligence against the backdrop of deaths of medical personnel due to respiratory diseases contracted in their work.

Adawy was a deputy for the ministry working on curative medicine in the ministries of Ashraf Hatem and Amro Helmy, neither of whom are seen to have been pro-health reform during their tenure. Adawy was reportedly a signatory on a memo that was sent from the ministry to public hospitals back in 2011 ahead of a doctors’ strike calling for striking doctors to be referred to prosecution.

Nahed al-Ashry has been appointed minister of manpower. Her appointment caused fury among labor organizers across the country for her record of siding with employers in labor contentions and negotiations. Groups including the Egypt-Ismailia Labor Front and the Suez Independent Syndicates group issued statements criticizing Ashry’s appointment. Ashry worked as head of the Immigration and Egyptians Abroad Sector in the ministry and before that she headed the ministry’s Work Relations Department during the Hosni Mubarak era. As a minister official, she represents a stark contrast to her predecessor, Kamal Abu Eita, who came from the ranks of labor movement organizers.

Wael al-Degwy has been assigned the higher education portfolio. He takes on the position against a backdrop of rising controversy around security presence in university campuses in the wake of wide-scale protests following the ouster Muslim Brotherhood affiliate former President Mohamed Morsi. Degwy was the head of the Engineering Faculty in Cairo University, which was witness to fierce clashes between security and protesters. In some of his first statements since news circulated of his taking on the ministerial post, he said that discipline within university campuses is among his priorities.

Nayer Abdel Moneim, appointed minister of justice, comes with the controversy of having sidelined from the Judges Club elections Judges for Egypt, a grouping of judges considered affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdel Moneim was head of the elections committee of the club at the time. He was formerly the head of the Court of Cassation and was active in the Judges Club and its general assemblies that opposed the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and their draft law for the judicial authority. The judiciary was one of the main institutions that supported the military in its ouster of the Brotherhood last summer.

Mostafa Madbuly has been assigned the housing portfolio. His appointment is already causing controversy due to his previous membership in the Policies Committee of the dissolved and previously ruling National Democratic Party. He held the urban planning portfolios within the ministry during the tenures of former ministers Mohamed Ibrahim Soliman and Ahmed al-Maghraby, both of whom are facing corruption charges.

Ghada Waly has been appointed minister of solidarity and faces ongoing demands for raising pensions for millions of pensioners in the midst of a dire fiscal crisis. One of four female ministers in the new Cabinet, Waly held the post of the secretary general of the Social Fund for Development since Essam Sharaf’s Cabinet in 2011. She has also worked with the United Nations Development Program and was a member of the National Council for Women’s economic committee.

Khaled Hanafi has been appointed minister of provisions. He previously headed the Internal Trade Development unit within the ministry. His ministry has responsibility for the wheat supply. Egypt is the largest importer of wheat globally, and shortages and poor quality of bread and wheat have caused unrest in recent years. Hanafy has participated in several research groups including one on bread subsidies.

Mohamed Shaker has been assigned the electricity portfolio. His appointment coincides with recurring power cuts that have been attributed by the government to sabotage by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood at the sites of main power stations. Shaker teaches engineering at Cairo University and has a energy consultancy that works in and outside of Egypt. The Ministry of Electricity is reportedly among the company’s clients.

The finance portfolio has been assigned to Hany Qadry, who already works within the ministry and is known for being a lead negotiator with the International Monetary Fund, which was in talks with Egypt for over two years about the dispensing of a major budget loan. Qadry’s appointment comes amid continuing fiscal challenges in the country. He was head of the Financial Policies Unit in the ministry and is known for influencing some of the conversations surrounding energy subsidies, which take up a significant amount of the state’s budget. He resigned during former President Mohamed Morsi’s rule, citing the intervention of Muslim Brotherhood figures in his work.

Hossam Kamal has been appointed minister of civil aviation. The veteran pilot worked as the CEO of EgyptAir since August 2013, where he served for several years previously. He was also a member of strategic committees such as the International Federation for Air Transportation and the Union for African Carriers. He headed the project to refurbish the travel lounges of the Star Alliance companies at Cairo International Airport.

Ibrahim Younis has been appointed minister of military production, while Minister of Industry and Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is now also assigned the investment ministry portfolio.

The following ministers have kept their positions in Mehleb’s Cabinet:

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi — Ministry of Defense

Mohamed Ibrahim — Ministry of Interior

Ashraf al-Araby — Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

Mokhtar Gomaa — Ministry of Endowments

Mohamed Ibrahim — Ministry of Antiquities

Adel Labib — Ministry of Local Development

Atef Helmy — Ministry of Communication

Doreya Sharaf Eddin — Ministry of Information

Khaled Abdel Aziz — Ministry of Youth and Sports

Sherif Ismail — Ministry of Petroleum

Mahmoud Abul Nasr — Ministry of Education

Hisham Zaazou — Ministry of Tourism

Mohamed Abu Hadeed — Ministry of Agriculture

Amin Mahdy — Ministry of Transitional Justice

Nabil Fahmy — Foreign Ministry

Ibrahim al-Demery — Ministry of Transportation

Laila Iskandar — Ministry of Environment

Saber Arab — Ministry of Culture

Mohamed Abdel Meteleb — Ministry of Irrigation

Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour — Ministry of Industry and Trade